Word: hollowing
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Guiding them was Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, a hollow-eyed "cracker," part-time road worker, truck driver and tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found...
...seals, and at length for pure enjoyment, and they disclose a skill in workmanship and a knowledge of animal forms that is astounding. Many are cut on a curved surface so that the minute figures, such as the youth riding a dolphin, appear on the inside of a hollow no bigger than a walnut shell. They were signed by their artists, whose names were classed by the Greek writers with those of the great sculptors...
...said "No!" to friends who had arranged for him to escape to Switzerland before he could be jailed. "If you wish to fight effectively against rottenness in a nation you must do it from the inside," said Ossietsky. "I will not flee abroad. A man speaks with but a hollow voice from across the border...
...Method is simplicity itself: insertion of a big hollow needle through a quarter-inch puncture into the cavity of the abdomen. The mobility of the liver, stomach, intestines, bladder, ovaries and womb is such that Dr. Ruddock can poke them around by means of a slender telescope inserted through the hollow needle. He can inspect them by the aid of electric lights placed at the tip of the telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound...
...students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely one general suggestion. At any rate, if a classical education here is to turn out anything more than unenterprising pedants who will perpetuate the hollow tradition of the Latin requirement, the Classics department must step lively. It must show itself worthy of the comparatively large budget bestowed upon it-which alone indicates the University's realization of the potential importance of the Classics...